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SUMMARY:Putting the Cooker on Low
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of a CHRA digital commission\, featuring a Q&A with artist Ama Josephine Budge and writer Dr. Chelsea M. Frazier\, moderated by Dr. J.T. Roane (Arizona State University).\nPutting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women\, femmes and non-binary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual\, emotional\, familial\, societal and ecological crises. Putting the Cooker on Low intimates that which happens in the simmer and bubble\, on the back burner and the top oven\, in the side eye and the hot pot. Thinking with an ancestry of Black feminist petitions for self-preservation\, this visual essay works to make visible and then unsettle the ways in which Black womxn artists internalize value-(as)-labour-(as)-capital. The cracks\, crevasses and slippages these anti-erotic modes of survival engender – as felt by both human and non-human ecologies – remain forced from view until they become black holes\, into which we are swallowed and disappear. Often without a trace. It is with the cooker on low\, that resistance might reduce into potency. It is with the cooker on low that we never run out of gas.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/putting-the-cooker-on-low/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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SUMMARY:UNDERCOOKED Works by MA in Human Rights & the Arts
DESCRIPTION:Undercooked features works-in-progress by the current MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. \n\nDeveloped as part of their practice-based core course with Tania El Khoury this spring (HRA 504: Collaborations and Community-based Art)\, all of the projects engage in different ways with the politics of food and land. The work includes performance\, music\, sound\, murals\, and food. Some performances take place on Wednesday May 4th\, others Wednesday May 11th\, and others will be ongoing between the two dates. \n\nWednesday May 4th \nCacao Sanctuary: A Performance by Baitsai Luo\nStudio North 2:30 pm \nMarket Price by Garrett Sager\nStudio North 3:00pm \nKitchen Seminar by Ali Hussein Al-Adawy\nStudio North 4:00 pm \nQueer Kurultai by Pasha Zalevskii\n7 Pine Street\, Tivoli 6:00 pm \nWednesday May 11th\n\nFatal Morgana by Adam HajYahia\nBard Community Farm 12:30pm \nSkins of Nature by Carol Montealegre\nBard Farm 2:30pm \nAlone Time by Nour Annan\nStudio North 3:00 pm \nLawn and Order by Isabella Indolfi\nFisher Center Lawn 4:00pm \nThe Drought by CEREBRO
:.\nResnick Studio 6:00pm \nOngoing\n\nHoly Grain by Maid Alrafie\nGrafitti Wall\, Campus Center \nThe Patapsco Inn by Hattie Wilder Karlstrom\nthepatapscoinn.tumblr.com
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/undercooked/
CATEGORIES:Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Activism in Process: Projects from Afghanistan\, Puerto Rico\, and Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion with CHRA’s current collaborators in “Activism in Process”. \nCHRA collaborates annually with a group of activists and organizers who are leading grassroots efforts in their communities. For our first “Activism in Process”\, we are bringing together Badr Baabou from Damj (a LGBTQ++ rights organization based in Tunisia); Ernesto Pujol (a social choreographer based in Puerto Rico); and Elizabeth Rubin and Natasha Matteson from Last Exit Kabul (a global network supporting Afghan refugees).  \nElizabeth Rubin and Natasha Matteson from Last Exit Kabul\nLast Exit Kabul is a civic initiative made up of journalists and activists who came together to help Afghans\, left behind by the U.S. withdrawal\, escape and survive. It has become part of a transnational network for direct action that has arisen as a response to the U.S. government’s crime of indifference. \nErnesto Pujol is founder of The Listening School\, which teaches deep-listening skills for the creation of conscious culture; The Savage Gardener Studio\, which works to decolonize island ecology by designing native & edible gardens of sited memory; and Casa Pujol\, an interdisciplinary residency for visiting scholars in San Juan. Ernesto is currently the Master Gardener at Hope Plantation\, the Program Coordinator at Save a Sato Foundation animal shelter\, and the Residency Director at Casa Pujol. \nBadr Baabou from Damj\nDamj is the first LGBTQ+ rights organization in Tunisia. Following a wave of arrests in 2008\, Damj began its work by creating safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community in Tunisia and a legal support team to counter the arrests. Damj works towards a vision of a pluralistic\, egalitarian and safe Tunisia. It focuses on abolishing law 230 of the penal code\, which bans homosexuality. Dialogue and collaboration are at the heart of Damj\, seeking to eradicate all forms of discrimination against minorities in Tunisia. \nPhoto by Yassine Gaidi.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/activism-in-process-21/
CATEGORIES:Panel
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SUMMARY:You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Activism and Freedom in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:CHRA is hosting the launch & discussion of Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s newly published book\, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated on Wednesday\, April 27th\, 5:00pm EDT at Weis Cinema\, Bard College. \nJoin us for a conversation with filmmaker and activist Sanaa Seif and scholar Omnia Khalil as they reflect on the ongoing incarceration of activists in Egypt beyond the victimization of the detained\, tracing how the singular experience becomes collective under the current Sisi regime.  \nCo-sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Bard.  \nThe event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/you-have-not-yet-been-defeated/
LOCATION:Weis Cinema\, Bard College\, 30 Campus Rd\, Annandale-on-Hudson\, NY
CATEGORIES:Panel
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SUMMARY:Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession\, Violence\, and War in Colombia
DESCRIPTION:CHRA will be screening Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession\, Violence\, and War in Colombia\, a program of three short films made in collaboration between the Colombian Truth Commission and Forensic Architecture on Wednesday\, April 20 at 7:45 pm EDT at Upstate Films\, Rhinebeck NY. The films center around the issue of land dispossession in Urabá\, a region in northwestern Colombia\, which has been gripped by political violence since the 1980s. Paramilitary groups and massacres have driven away thousands from their homes and agricultural land. More than 4 million hectares in Colombia are now considered to be stolen from small campesinos as a result of 60 years of war. \nEach of the films in this program offers a different insight into the complex dynamics of violence that produce dispossession. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the co-directors\, Hannah Meszaros Martin and CHRA’s 2021-22 Fellow\, Oscar Pedraza Vargas. \nThe event is free and open to the public. Reservations can be made through this link. \n \nThe following films will be screened during this event: \nCoquitos (43 min\, 2021)\nCoquitos explores the slow violence of dispossession. Sometimes this practice is backed by armed forces and physical threats to community members; other times\, it is perpetrated through the slow movement of saltwater that seeps into the roots of plantains after a flood\, rotting them from within. The film looks at the spectrum of violence that constitutes dispossession within the everyday lives of the residents of Coquitos. This violence is intimate\, concerning the depth and width of the canal which borders their farms\, which determines the flow of water that rises up and spills over\, entering into the space of the home\, their interior lives. The film looks at the future of dispossession as it is driven by the extreme precarity that the residents live with everyday\, and embodied by the fragility of the land. \nHonduras y La Negra (27 min\, 2021)\nThe massacres of Honduras and La Negra occurred on March 4th\, 1988. The victims were banana workers and union members. These massacres are emblematic in the history of the Colombian War\, and exemplify the way in which state actors\, as well as private and illegal sectors\, plan and execute similar acts of violence. Honduras y La Negra uses archival materials\, oral testimonies\, aerial images\, and 3D reconstructions to tell the story of the massacre and its reverberations throughout the country. \nCalifornia (26 min\, 2021)\nCalifornia materializes the multiplicity of land dispossession. Farms\, homes\, fields\, barracks\, massacre sites are all continuously disappearing\, erased by agroindustrial monocultures for exports to the U.S and Europe. While bananas visually capture the landscape\, forming a uniform skin that wraps around the earth\, an invisible web of intimate financial relations forms over this patchwork of fields and canals. This web is also a network of paramilitary control\, which\, along with and through the bananas\, encloses and chokes this small community of campesinos.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/memory-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:Upstate Films: Starr Theatre\, Rhinebeck\, NY\, 6415 Montgomery St\, Rhinebeck\, NY\, 12572\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Khar va Attar خار وعطار : The Thorn and the Healers
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of a CHRA digital commission and a text by Dr. Manijeh Moradian\, featuring a Q&A with artist Amitis Motevalli.\nFor Khar va Attar\, the artist takes on the challenge of channeling a conversation between 10th century Persian scholar and doctor\, Ibn Sina (Avicenna)\, her uncle Manoucher Emrani\, an agricultural engineer and botanist\, and her friend\, Soraya Medina\, a recently departed food justice advocate. This surrealist séance takes the form of a performative video woven together with other digital media. Khar va Attar explores the various medicinal properties of the different parts of the rose as well as other foods and plants\, creating a hybridized recipe for healing. \nModerated by Dr. Angela Harutyunyan (American University of Beirut)
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/khar-va-attar/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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SUMMARY:Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3\,000 Years (Part of Imaging Land\, Labor\, and Infrastructure)
DESCRIPTION:CHRA will be screening Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3\,000 Years (1976) by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima on Tuesday\, April 5th\, 5:30pm EDT at Weis Cinema\, Bard College. The event is free and open to the public. The film screening will be followed by post-screening discussions. \nMirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3\,000 Years is Part three of public film screening series Imaging Land\, Labor\, and Infrastructure organized by CHRA’s 2021-22 Fellow Nadine Fattaleh. Hosted in the Hudson Valley and online\, the series considers the politics and poetics of visibility in the Global South and the complex ways in which moving images of agricultural labor\, large-scale dams\, and rural dispossession constitute a fragmentary audio-visual archive conversant with the circulation of ideas around Third Cinema. \nA network of Ciné-Clubs in Syria\, convened by Omar Amiralay (1944-2011) and other veteran filmmakers\, were unique spaces for the circulation of politicized images in the age of celluloid. They brought together artists\, intellectuals\, and enthusiasts interested in watching and debating the relationship between cinema and radical politics. In this light\, the program will feature the film by Haile Gerima\, which follows Omar Amiralay’s shorts (March 18)\, screened at Upstate Films at Rhinebeck\, NY\, and contemporaneous works by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (1939-2018) (April 5)\, screened online. The series develops a conversation about innovative aesthetics from the moment of the 1970s that mediate narratives of marginalized and exploited communities. The film program seeks to recreate an intimate space for dialogue around the transformative possibilities of cinema\, then and now\, in global struggles around land\, labor and infrastructure. The series will culminate in a roundtable discussion later in the Spring. All events are free and open to the public. \n  \n 
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/imaging-land-3/
LOCATION:Weis Cinema\, Bard College\, 30 Campus Rd\, Annandale-on-Hudson\, NY
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier: My Art is a Being: Building a Relationship to Art through Agreement\, Ethics\, and Pleasure
DESCRIPTION:By understanding our art as a being with whom we create a relationship\, Layli Long Soldier explores the ways in which we can make commitments and agreements with our writing and art; uphold expectations and enact reciprocity\, as one would do with a relative; and nourish our relationship through pleasure\, playfulness\, or enjoyment. These agreements with our art\, in turn\, lay a foundation of ethics that can protect us from capitalism and the dangers of becoming human art-machines! This will primarily be an artist talk in which Long Soldier will share images/videos of projects that have helped her build a practice based on relationship and reciprocity rather than productivity\, alone.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/layli-long-soldier/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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SUMMARY:Films by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (Part of Imaging Land\, Labor\, and Infrastructure)
DESCRIPTION:CHRA will be screening four short films by Egyptian filmmaker Ateyyat El Abnoudy on Tuesday\, March 29th\, 12pm EDT on Zoom (link). The event is free and open to the public. Four films will be shown on Zoom and followed by post-screening discussion with audiovisual archivist Yasmin Desouki (Chicago Film Archives\, formerly Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre in Cairo\, Egypt). \n\nحصان الطين Mud House (1970)\, 12 min\nأغنية توحة الحزينة Sad Song of Touha (1972)\, 12 min\nالساندوتش The Sandwich (1975)\, 12 min\nبحار العطش Seas of Thirst (1981)\, 44 min\n\nFilms by Ateyyat El Abnoudy are part of Imaging Land\, Labor\, and Infrastructure\, a series of public film screenings organized by CHRA’s 2021-22 Fellow Nadine Fattaleh. Hosted in the Hudson Valley and online\, the series considers the politics and poetics of visibility in the Global South and the complex ways in which moving images of agricultural labor\, large-scale dams\, and rural dispossession constitute a fragmentary audio-visual archive conversant with the circulation of ideas around Third Cinema. \n\nA network of Ciné-Clubs in Syria\, convened by Omar Amiralay (1944-2011) and other veteran filmmakers\, were unique spaces for the circulation of politicized images in the age of celluloid. They brought together artists\, intellectuals\, and enthusiasts interested in watching and debating the relationship between cinema and radical politics. In this light\, the program will feature short films by Ateyyat El Abnoudy\, which follows Omar Amiralay’s shorts (March 18)\, and will be followed by a film by Haile Gerima (1946-)\, screened at Bard College on April 5. The series develops a conversation about innovative aesthetics from the moment of the 1970s that mediate narratives of marginalized and exploited communities. The film program seeks to recreate an intimate space for dialogue around the transformative possibilities of cinema\, then and now\, in global struggles around land\, labor and infrastructure. The series will culminate in a roundtable discussion later in the Spring. All events are free and open to the public. \n\n 
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/imaging-land-2/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Films by Omar Amiralay (Part of Imaging Land\, Labor\, and Infrastructure)
DESCRIPTION:CHRA will be screening three short films by Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay on Thursday\, March 17th\, 7:45pm EDT at Upstate Films\, Rhinebeck NY. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations can be made through this link. The films will be followed by post-screening discussions: \n\nمحاولة عن سد الفرات Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam (1970)\, 13 min\nالدجاج The Chickens (1977)\, 41 min\nطوفان في بلاد البعث A Flood in Ba‘ath Country (2003)\, 49 min\n\nThis screening of films by Omar Amiralay are part of Imaging Land\, Labor\, and Infrastructure\, a series of public film screenings organized by CHRA’s 2021-22 Fellow Nadine Fattaleh. Hosted in the Hudson Valley and online\, the series considers the politics and poetics of visibility in the Global South and the complex ways in which moving images of agricultural labor\, large-scale dams\, and rural dispossession constitute a fragmentary audio-visual archive conversant with the circulation of ideas around Third Cinema. \nA network of Ciné-Clubs in Syria\, convened by Omar Amiralay (1944-2011) and other veteran filmmakers\, were unique spaces for the circulation of politicized images in the age of celluloid. They brought together artists\, intellectuals\, and enthusiasts interested in watching and debating the relationship between cinema and radical politics. In this light\, the program will first feature Omar Amiralay’s shorts (March 18)\, followed by contemporaneous works by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (1939-2018)\, screened online on March 29th\, and film by Haile Gerima (1946-)\, screened at Bard College on April 5. The series develops a conversation about innovative aesthetics from the moment of the 1970s that mediate narratives of marginalized and exploited communities. The film program seeks to recreate an intimate space for dialogue around the transformative possibilities of cinema\, then and now\, in global struggles around land\, labor and infrastructure. The series will culminate in a roundtable discussion later in the Spring. All events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/imaging-land-1/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Hunt & Gather: Work in Progress by MA students
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural cohort of eleven MA students developed work-in-progress as a part of “Collaborations & Community\,” a course taught by the Center’s director Dr. Tania El Khoury. The collaborative creative projects span various formats and artistic mediums\, from dinner performance\, live art\, digital work\, party\, and posters. \nWednesday 9 March \nHowls in the Mountains by Carol Montealegre 2:30pm (Resnick Studio\, Bard College) \nBai Tsai’s Tsai Fan by Baitsai (Yiqun) Luo 6pm (7351 S Broadway\, Red Hook) \nBetween the Railroad & the River by Isabella Indolfi (Digital) \nThursday 10 March \nSound Bounds by Hattie Wilder Karlstrom 5:30pm (Behind Manor\, Bard College) \nWednesday 16 March \nUnpopular Opinions by Majd Al Rafie (Ongoing: Campus Center\, Bard College) \nCocktail Party by Nour Annan 2:30pm (Studio North\, Bard College) \nNaked Sword by Paul Zalevskii 4:00pm (Studio North\, Bard College) \nCapitalism Doesn’t Exist by Ali Hussein Al-Adawy & Tâm Liêu Âm 5:00pm (Montgomery Place\, Bard College) \nLittle Lamb by Garrett Sager 6:30pm (Bard Hall\, Bard College) \nJanzeer by Adam HajYahya 7:30pm (Resnick Studio\, Bard College)
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/hunt-gather/
LOCATION:Bard College\, 30 Campus Road\, Annandale-On-Hudson\, NY
CATEGORIES:Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Mohammed El-Kurd: “Bombs\, women\, children\, etc”: Humanization\, Victimhood\, and the Politics of Appeal
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, well-meaning journalists and cultural workers used a humanizing framework in their representation of oppressed people\, in hopes of countering the traditional portrayal of the Palestinian as a “terrorist.” Within this framework\, a perfect victimhood emerged as an ethnocentric prerequisite for sympathy and solidarity\, often over-emphasizing oppressed people’s nonviolence\, humane professions\, and disabilities. In “Bombs\, women\, children\, etc.”: Humanization\, Victimhood\, and the Politics of Appeal\, El-Kurd unpacks the impact such practices of “defanging\,” which reproduce the mainstream cultural order in which Palestinians are robbed of their agency\, right to self-determination\, and\, ultimately\, their humanity. \n\nCo-presented by the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Bard College.  \nLocation: RKC 103\, Bard College\n \n 
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/mohammed-el-kurd/
LOCATION:RKC 103\, Bard College\, Campus Road\, Annandale-on-Hudson\, NY\, 12504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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SUMMARY:Kendall Thomas: Taking (A)part:  Human Rights\, Human Rites\, "Human Writes"
DESCRIPTION:In Taking (A)part: Human Rights\, Human Rites and “Human Writes\,” Kendall Thomas revisits “Human Writes\,” a 2005 performance-installation about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on which he collaborated with the choreographer William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall once argued that in the arts “things get said in ways in which they can’t get said in any other domain.” In his talk\, Thomas takes the triangulated homonymic relationship between “rights\,” “rites\,” and “writes” as a point of departure for exploring the uses and limits of “participation” as an aesthetic politics and practice for building a culture of human rights.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/kendall-thomas/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T160000
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SUMMARY:Bhenji Ra: Everything at Once: Permaculture\, abolition\, and trans love
DESCRIPTION:How do we exist in complexity and contradiction? Can we mourn and celebrate all at once? In a world focused on binaries\, where do we find power on the edges? In this talk\, Bhenji speaks to the beauty of everything at once\, of finding meaning between practices\, bridging bodies and islands of knowledge together in order to expand our potential of living. With a body centred practice\, she approaches community with the principles of permaculture\, prison abolition and of course\, ignited with radical trans love.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/bhenji-ra/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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SUMMARY:Tastes of Loss
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of a CHRA digital commission\, featuring a Q&A with artist Alexandre Paulikevitch and writer Romy Lynn Attieh\, moderated by curator Amanda Abi Khalil and co-presented by CEC ArtsLink.\nTastes of Loss tells the story of a dancer’s intimate relationship to food cooking and preservation. It is a visual essay on survival\, womanhood\, and joy. It is filmed in the artist’s family kitchen where he learned from his late mother the techniques of dehydrating\, canning\, and fermenting food for the winter or for the next war. Tastes of Loss marks the dancer’s return home. The body finds its way back to stuffed vine leaves\, tree branches\, and vast rural landscapes.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/tastes-of-loss/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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SUMMARY:Sayak Valencia: The Livestreaming Regime: From Gore Capitalism to Contemporary Snuff Politics
DESCRIPTION:What is “gore capitalism” and how does it turn into “snuff politics” in the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego? In answering those questions\, Sayak Valencia discusses examples of audiovisual devices and virtual social networks that challenge the regime of truth through what she calls “the livestreaming regime.” Her talk considers how the contemporary body has become a platform for a new media-disseminated common sense that produces bio-hyper-mediated subjectivities. She analyzes viral trends\, fashion\, and acts of cultural as well as corporeal appropriation that crystallize in diverse bodies and demonstrate the influence of virtual networks in the construction of the material world.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/sayak-valencia-the-livestreaming-regime-from-gore-capitalism-to-contemporary-snuff-politics/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T133000
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SUMMARY:Githa Hariharan: The Writer in Search of Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:How does a writer find her voice? And how does she locate herself among the power structures that operate in the world around her? Drawing on her own work\, Githa Hariharan examines the writer’s struggle to enlarge the small space occupied by an individual life. She describes the project of giving voice to a mosaic of voices and their multiple narratives\, mapped onto diverse locations. Using her own journey as a writer\, and her social commitments as a citizen\, she traces the creative process through several prisms\, from politics to cultural locations to strategies of craft.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/githa-hariharan-the-writer-in-search-of-citizenship/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T133000
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SUMMARY:Only God Can Make Tomato Sauce
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of a CHRA digital commission\, featuring a Q&A with artist Brian Lobel and writer Season Butler\, moderated by Jack Ferver (Bard College).\nTwo friends and food makers share their recipes for healing\, their personal histories and food journeys\, and wider reflections on medicine versus the medicinal\, knowledge versus expertise\, the homegrown and the home-y\, the wholesome and the holy-cow-get-that-away-from-me.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/only-god/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T133000
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CREATED:20210915T153317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T151218Z
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Natq: Impossible Speech
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Abu Hamdan presents ‘Natq’\, a live audiovisual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Through listening closely to “xenoglossy” (the impossible speech of reincarnated subjects)\, this performance explores a collectivity of lives who use reincarnation to negotiate their condition at the threshold of the law—people for whom injustices and violence have escaped the historical record due to colonial subjugation\, corruption\, rural lawlessness\, and legal amnesty. In the piece\, reincarnation is not a question of belief but a medium for justice.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/lawrence-abu-hamdan/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T133000
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CREATED:20210906T030400Z
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SUMMARY:Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights: Cuban Artists Confront the State
DESCRIPTION:Fusco will discuss the recent efforts by “artivists” in Cuba to advocate for expanded expressive freedoms and civil rights. She will focus primarily on the activities of the 27N group and the San Isidro Movement.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/coco-fusco/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210614T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210614T130000
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CREATED:20210609T193857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T181942Z
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SUMMARY:Dwala Lam'
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of a CHRA digital commission\, featuring a Q&A with artist Sethembile Msezane and writer Dr. Portia Malatjie\, moderated by Panashe Chigumadzi and hosted by Wits School of Arts. \nPraise singing and movement is the celebration of presence. Dwala Lam’ is a praise song that reminds one of the groundedness that is inscribed in their ancestry. These inscriptions\, may come by way of being christened by a name that charts out your destiny\, creates relief\, a warm smile in a quiet moment or even conveys a message to the world. \nThe names that are often given in African cultures are the hopes and wishes of families that raise the bearer of the name. These names may be passed down through generations\, they may be whispered to an expecting mother in her sleep. The names become the accession of ancestry but they are also a reminder to the bearer of the name of their significance\, to remember this in good as well as challenging times. \nThe whispers of the praise songs from one’s ancestors are the protective spells that affirm us in the ebb and flow of life.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/dwala-lam/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210603T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210603T130000
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SUMMARY:Hands to Hold
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of our third digital commission\, featuring a Q&A with artist Emilio Rojas and writer Pamela Sneed hosted by Dr. Sanjay Kumar (Central European University).\nHands to Hold is centered around 2 durational performances devised by Emilio Rojas. For a 6.5-hour performance\, the artist drank a 1.5 gallons of sap from a 250 year old sugar maple in the Hudson Valley. This action took place in the ancestral homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people where Rojas resides. 1.5 gallons is the amount of blood flowing through our bodies at all times. This durational performance embodies a transfusion of fluids\, the blood of the tree\, into the artist’s bloodstream. In the second performance\, Rojas created casts of his hands\, made soap molds\, and performed the ritual of ablution for 8 hours. \nIn this collaboration between Rojas and poet Pamela Sneed\, the artists recognize the labor of artists and black and brown people during this past year of pandemic. It is an attempt to send a blessing to all those hands that by holding on\, have held us through. Hands to Hold is a journey of gratitude and acknowledgement\, a litany to the pandemics (AIDS and Covid-19) and the waves of mourning around us. It is an attempt to memorialize the intersections of our relationships to this land and the systems of oppression that we’ve inherited.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/hands-to-hold/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210524T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210524T123000
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CREATED:20210524T133617Z
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SUMMARY:Reflections from Al-Quds Bard on the Current Situation
DESCRIPTION:The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts\, the Human Rights Project\, and Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College are pleased to co-present the following panel: \n\nMs. Rana Hajjaj\, Program Manager for Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences\nProfessor Saida Hamad\, Head of Media Studies Program\, Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences\nProfessor Munir Nusseibeh\, Assistant Professor in Faculty of Law\, Al-Quds University\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/reflections-from-aqb/
CATEGORIES:Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210518T113000
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SUMMARY:Mise-en-crise
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of our second digital commission\, featuring a Q&A with artist Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) and writer Hélène Selam Kleih hosted by Dr. Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre). \nMise-en-Crise is a film that considers choreography as both the site and the scenography of hope\, performatively carved from crisis and rebellion. Playing with the theatrical concept mise-en-scène\, this work uses dance as a material tool and texture for elemental seduction and strategic unruliness. \nFrom night to sunrise to day to night\, Mise-en-Crise relies upon a documentary-style framework to follow and visiblise the formal construction of atmosphere and persona. By materialising an aesthetics that is admittedly not here\, unknown\, joyous\, flamboyant\, gestural\, defiant and even ritualistic\, the work attempts to create conditional desires for an unspoken and untold freedom and fantasy for the marginalised subject. Dancing on top of the vortex of a crafted\, apocalyptic visual and subtextural narrative that doesn’t give into its own fatalism\, yet ruminates on the question\, ‘And what to be thrown into crisis?’ We create the possibility of hope from nothing.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/mise-en-crise/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210507T140000
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SUMMARY:Hamed Sinno: Queerness in/as Metaphor
DESCRIPTION:An analysis of several musical and literary texts by Mashrou Leila\, as sites for negotiating the discursive boundaries of gender construction in the public sphere\, and an attempt to frame the work within ongoing conversations about the limits of representation as a mode of political engagement.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/hamed-sinno/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T140000
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SUMMARY:Mark Sealy: Photography\, Race\, Rights\, and Representation
DESCRIPTION:The photographers discussed share a forensic dialogue with photography’s past and offer navigational tools for its future possibilities in the making of new identities and histories. We need to keep open cultural portals in which to discuss the application of photography as a vehicle for self-determination\, remaking histories\, and visual forms of resistance. The aim is a visual voyage through the difficult terrains of racism\, social change and the matrix of colonialities that haunt the micro and macro now. We will attend to those who have acted on and engaged with the complexities of  human recognition and\, through their sense of being responsible human subjects\, have produced works that enable us to question the now of our time as an open interpretative space that is both indeterminate\, contested\, and always in flux.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/mark-sealy/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T140000
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CREATED:20210205T091552Z
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SUMMARY:Ashmina Ranjit: Politics of Being
DESCRIPTION:Just because we’re born with a vagina\, why accept that our family\, society\, and state continue treating us as unequal ‘beings’? Why sexual violence\, unequal rights\, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and re-imagine intersections of gender\, caste\, class and religion? \nI plan to reflect on insights from my journey of resisting and interrogating complex politics of Hindu patriarchy\, especially the role of nation-state in sustaining structures of dominance and exploitation. Using art as a tool for investigating and reclaiming my own position as a ‘Being’\, I am exploring my multiple identities as a human\, citizen\, Asian\, artist amongst others.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/ashmina-ranjit/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T034837
CREATED:20210205T091513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T180500Z
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SUMMARY:Forensic Oceanography: Border Forensics
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011\, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier\, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting on the effectiveness\, but also the ambivalences\, limits and blind-spots of this practice\, they will point to the directions they are beginning to explore within their new project\, Border Forensics.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/charles-heller-and-lorenzo-pezzani/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T034837
CREATED:20210205T091415Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
DESCRIPTION:Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document\, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts and is part of an advisory group\, with Reuben Roqueni\, Lori Pourier\, Ronee Penoi\, and Vallejo Gantner – developing a First Nations Performing Arts Network
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/emily-johnson/
CATEGORIES:Talks Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T143000
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CREATED:20210401T131427Z
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SUMMARY:There is a Baba in Our House
DESCRIPTION:World premiere of the first in our annual digital commissions\, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra Mortada and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin). \nفي بيتنا بابا\nParting from a personal narrative\, and using references from both popular culture and key political events\, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative aspect of nationalism and its propaganda\, to contribute to a much-needed debate around Pan-Arabism & its consequences\, history and present. \nIn this political coming-of-age\, the video highlights the blurred lines between the Father figure as both the patriarch of the family and the leader of the nation. The author holds their father’s bias accountable despite the latter’s unquestionable commitment to social justice.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/baba-in-our-house/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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